839 — “Gabriel came to me and said: ‘O Muhammad, Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has cursed wine: the one who presses it, the one for whom it is pressed, the one who drinks it, the one who carries it, the one to whom it is carried, the one who sells it, the one who buys it, the one who serves it, and the one who requests it to be served.’”

Aḥmad recorded it (1/316), as did al-Ḥākim (4/145), and al-Bayhaqī narrated it from him in Shuʿab al-Īmān (2/150), through Mālik ibn Khayr al-Ziyādī, who said that Mālik ibn Saʿd al-Tujībī narrated to him that he heard Ibn ʿAbbās say: “I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say”—and he then mentioned it. Al-Ḥākim said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic.” Al-Dhahabī concurred with him.

I say: It is as they both said. Ibn Abī Ḥātim included this al-Tujībī in his biographical work and related (4/1/109) from Abū Zurʿah: “He is an Egyptian; there is no objection to him.” Ibn Abī Ḥātim likewise included al-Ziyādī (4/1/208), without mentioning any criticism or commendation concerning him. However, a number of trustworthy narrators reported from him, and Ibn Ḥibbān declared him trustworthy. Hence al-Dhahabī said in al-Mīzān: “His standing is that of one who is truthful. Ibn al-Qaṭṭān said: ‘He is among those whose uprightness has not been established.’” By this he meant that no one explicitly stated that he was trustworthy. Yet among the narrators of the two Ṣaḥīḥs are many of whom we do not know anyone to have explicitly declared trustworthy. The majority hold that if a number of people narrate from one of the shaykhs, and he does not relate anything objectionable, then his hadith is authentic. The rest of the narrators in the chain are trustworthy narrators of the two Ṣaḥīḥs.

Al-Haythamī said in al-Majmaʿ (5/73): “Aḥmad and al-Ṭabarānī narrated it, and its narrators are trustworthy.”